Places stefanmarquart Wants to Go

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.

The ancient Greek Titan guards this massive dam holding a lightning bolt to symbolize electricity.

A giant bronze monument to Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il is one of the most sacred sites in North Korea.

This recently uncovered ad for Lindsay's run at Mayor in 1965 had been hiding for decades underneath a billboard.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

From morgue to urn, watch the whole process at this unusual educational attraction.

Where the oil industry began.

Where the sleeping monsters of Scotland's oil industry are left to rust.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

The ruins of an abandoned crematorium haunt an eerie deserted German cemetery.

The world’s narrowest house makes for an awkward, four-foot-wide living space.

A partially hidden wall graffitied by spectators of the 1976 Bicentennial, recently rediscovered.

The knock-off oil painting capital of the world.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

All that remains of Jacques Cousteau's 1960s underwater "village."

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

This two-room factory has been cranking out the musical signifier of zaniness for a century.

A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.